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The word cathedral is sometimes mistakenly applied as a generic term for any very large and imposing church. The role of bishop as an administrator of local clergy came into being in the 1st century. [4] [better source needed] It was two hundred years before the first
The new seating of the excavated church is a modest contrast to its pre-lahar-incident amphitheater-style seating. In 1995, the lahar flow that entered Bacolor submerged the town in lahar mud, mostly between three to six meters (9.8 to 19.7 ft) thick, but burying even tall structures in the town's lower parts like the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican and Bacolor's famous San ...
On February 1, 2014, the province of Albay commemorated the 200th anniversary of the 1814 eruption by holding the Cagsawa Festival, “Cagsawa Dos Siglos”, as tribute to the strength and resiliency of the people in Albay, and also as a reminder of the dangers of living near an active volcano and their commitment to disaster risk reduction.
The construction of Gothic cathedrals was an ambitious, expensive, and technically demanding aspect of life in the Late Middle Ages. From the late 11th century until the Renaissance, largely in Western Europe, Gothic cathedral construction required substantial funding, highly skilled workers, and engineering solutions for complex technical ...
Lincoln Cathedral had a chapter of secular canons, for whom the earliest polygonal chapter house was built.. The 26 cathedrals described in this article are those of Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St. Alban's, Salisbury, Southwark, Southwell, Wells ...
Reconstructed Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, in north central Bulgaria. Located on top of the fortified Tsarevets hill in the former capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, the cathedral was the seat of the Bulgarian patriarch from its construction in the 11th–12th century to its destruction in 1393. Standing on top ...
The transformation of St. Vincent commenced with a cracklike thunder followed by a storm of ash late last week. Within the passage of a day, the once vibrant city of Richmond Vale on the island of ...
The term former cathedral in this list includes any Christian [1] church (building) in Great Britain which has been the seat of a bishop, [2] but is not so any longer. The status of a cathedral, for the purpose of this list, does not depend on whether the church concerned is known to have had a formal "throne" (or cathedra) nor whether a formal territory or diocese was attached to the church ...